Barack Obama Quotes

When you are President you have to get something done, and that often means compromise.

Being president isn't anything like reality TV.

I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.

Running for president is hard. But it's good preparation. Because being president is a lot harder.

He can't spend all his time running his mouth; he's got to run the country.

Running a country is much more difficult than running a campaign.

The distinction between a statesman and a politician is that the former imposes his will and his ideas on his environment while the latter adopts himself to it.

The great scientist was offered the Presidency of the young state of Israel:] I am deeply moved ..., though also sad and abashed that it is impossible for me to accept this offer. Since all my life I have been dealing with the world of objects. I have neither the natural ability nor the experience necessary to deal with human beings and to carry out official functions.

When you get into an airplane, you expect a pilot who knows how to fly. Running a Government is also an expertise.

I continue to aspire to serve Colombia as president.

Governing has always been hard.

Being a former first lady doesn't prepare you to be president.

I really love being governor. I've been extremely successful.

I cannot think of a president or administration that has taken seriously the 100 days.

That's a large part of the job as governor: to create and maintain the optimal balance.

One day, when I have advertising out of my system, I want to be Prime Minister of Australia.

If you're in Congress, you vote and give speeches. But governors have to make decisions every day, and presidents have to make decisions every day.

You have to have patience to be a legislator.

I think I should be a president. President of the United States.

There's no way that I could be the president. You can't have a pacifist in the White House... I'm an actor. This is what I do for a living.

It's my job as governor to set a vision.

As governor, I learned the importance of having an agenda.

I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

I think that the presidency really brings out the best in a lot of people.

I was friends with President Ronald Reagan and he once said to me, 'I don't know how anybody can serve in public office without being an actor.'